Smart Agriculture

From measuring environmental conditions that influence crop production to tracking livestock health indicators, Internet of Things (IoT) technology for agriculture enables efficiencies which reduce environmental impact, maximize yield and minimize expenses. Smart agriculture use cases based on Semtech's LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® standard have demonstrated significant improvements, such as a 50% water reduction for commercial farms. LoRa Technology’s long range, low power wireless qualities enable the use of low cost sensors to send data from the farm to the Cloud where it can be analyzed to improve operations.

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Transportation providers, healthcare, food services, and many other verticals want to replace inefficient manual processes with geolocation asset management solutions that offer long range communication and ultra-low power consumption. This e-book details five asset management applications incorporating geolocation services and data.
Transforming Geolocation With LoRa®
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LoRaWAN supports smart agriculture & precise animal production Recent extreme incidents around the globe—famine, climate change, wildfires, tornados, droughts, floods, and pandemics—remind us that farmers are facing two major challenges: to feed the planet and sustain the environment.
The Farming of Tomorrow Is Already Here: How LoRaWAN Technology Supports Smart Agriculture & Precise Animal Production
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LoRa devices in smart agriculture use cases e-book From measuring the environmental conditions influencing crop production to tracking livestock health indicators, LoRa-based applications create efficiencies reducing environmental impact, maximizing yield and minimizing expenses. Download this e-book to learn how LoRa devices are being leveraged to create innovative applications that solve today.
LoRa Devices: Smart Agriculture Real World Solutions
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LoRa and LoRaWAN revolutionize smart agriculture white paper By leveraging LoRa Technology and LoRaWAN, farmers can deploy a low-cost IoT solution to maximize crop growth, efficiency and profits.
Revolutionizing Smart Agriculture
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Infographics

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Satellite Infographic Semtech technology has enabled the creation of low cost, satellite-based, real-time, bidirectional, massive IoT connectivity services.
Satellite-based IoT Connectivity
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Day in a Life Infographic Learn how LoRa, the long range low power technology from Semtech, and the LoRaWAN standard have the power to change our world and transform our daily lives.
A Day in a Life With LoRa
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As climate change intensifies global natural disasters, detecting environmental issues quickly and accurately enable proactive safety measures to limit the loss of life and property. Monitoring solutions running on the Helium “The People’s Network” allow for accurate tracking of air quality, extreme weather conditions and water quality.
Proactive Safety Measures With Environmental Monitoring
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We believe every IoT device should have a low power geolocation ready feature –whether it's a mobile asset or a fixed asset. This is now possible, thanks to LoRa® devices, the LoRaWAN® standard and the LoRa Edge™ asset management platform.
The Future of Geolocation Has Arrived
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Internet of Things and LoRa infographic The Internet of Things and LoRa® are making a better, sustainable world to live, work and play. LoRa and the LoRaWAN® standard provide a “voice” to things – carrying an explosion of data and analytics to solve real world challenges.
LoRa Everything
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Internet of Things and LoRa everyone infographic Download the infographic to explore how products based on LoRa create a safer, more sustainable and comfortable planet for us all.
LoRa Everyone
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Semtech's LoRa Edge infographic LoRa Edge™ is a new, highly versatile and low power software defined LoRa-based platform that will enable a wide portfolio of applications for indoor and outdoor asset management, targeting industrial, building, home, agriculture, transportation, and logistics markets.
LoRa Edge™ Applications
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LoRa everywhere infographic Download the infographic to see how LoRa-based products are changing the world and enabling a better life.
LoRa Everywhere
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10 things about LoRaWAN and NB-IoT infographic Which wireless network solution is right for your application? Compare the qualities of low power wide area network (LPWAN) solutions side by side in this helpful infographic.
10 Things About LoRaWAN & NB-IoT
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Real-World Deployments

See how LoRa has enabled business efficiencies in these real-world smart agriculture deployments.

Smart Paddock Ear Tag
Smart Cattle Tracking

Smart Paddock’s “Bluebell” smart global positioning system (GPS) ear tag, featuring LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard, monitors livestock location in real time and analyzes the cattle’s behavioral data to solve real world livestock management issues.

Florja Plant Management with LoRa
Smart Plant Care

Communicate2Integrate integrated LoRa devices and LoRaWAN connectivity in its Florja solution, a Cloud-based plant management platform that allows users to monitor for the temperature, humidity and salt level found in the soil which then relays the data to the Florja platform accessible via desktop and smartphones for further intelligent analysis.

Aquaculture Oyster Farming LoRaWAN
Smart Aquaculture

ICT International has integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard into its water quality monitoring systems for aquaculture, transmitting measured data which includes temperature, water level/tide, water salinity, and more to oyster farmers in near real-time.

LoRa connected smart agriculture: avocado farms
Connected Avocado Farms

Definium Technologies and ICT International leverage an advanced array of products based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol to improve crop yield in Australian avocado plantations with a data-centric approach to farming.

LoRa based smart agriculture and ranches
Healthy and Productive Ranches

itk's LoRa-enabled sensors detect cattle estrus, drive improved nutrition and predict the onset of disease to help ranchers better monitor their herd.

LoRa-based soil irrigation monitoring for smart agriculture
Soil Irrigation Monitoring

Oizom's LoRa-based Agribot sensor leverages Tata Communications' LoRaWAN-based network to monitor soil conditions including humidity and pH to make smarter irrigation decisions, improving crop yield and reducing water and electricity consumption by up to 26 percent.

LoRa & LoRaWAN smart farming network
Smart Farming Networks

Australian carrier National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) and agriculture company Goanna Ag have deployed a LoRaWAN-based network to enable LoRa-based IoT solutions for smart agriculture applications. 

LoRa & Lar.Tech smart cattle ranching
Smart Cattle Ranching

lar.tech's LoRa-enabled GPS tracker and biometric sensor monitor a cow's vitals and location and notify ranchers immediately in the event of an abnormality.

LoRa-based ingestible cattle health tracker for smart agriculture
Ingestible Cattle Health Tracker

SK Telecom's LoRa-equipped bio-capsule is implanted into a cow’s gastrointestinal tract to monitor for a variety of health indicators.

LoRa-based soil moisture monitoring for smart agriculture
Soil Moisture Monitoring

Sensoterra’s LoRa-based solutions allow farmers to manage their irrigation systems more efficiently.

LoRa-based smart agriculture soil sensor
Smart Soil Sensors

Teralytic’s LoRa-based wireless sensors detect nitrogen, phosphate and potassium (NPK) levels in soil to help farmers reduce waste and improve crop yields.

LoRa-based smart agriculture automated irrigation
Autonomous Irrigation

WaterBit’s LoRa-enabled autonomous irrigation system helps growers maximize yield across soil types, while optimizing the use of labor and other input resources. 

In the News

Articles and press coverage of LoRa-enabled smart agriculture solutions are featured below. 

Plant Care? Cattle Tracking? Exploring IoT Sensors’ Unexpected Uses

The Internet of Things (IoT) has tremendously grown over the past decade. To wit: IoT Analytics predicts that, by 2025, there will be approximately 27 billion connected IoT devices around the world. Of course, with this continued growth comes expanded applications and use cases. Read more

IoT Sensors: Promoting Food Industry Efficiency

Connected sensors can help companies cost effectively track and determine asset quality in the supply chain to optimize purchasing, ensuring that consumers have access to safe, high-quality food. Read more
IoT Agenda

IoT brings resource gains, sustainability to agriculture

Sensors, LoRa and LoRaWAN bring benefits to famers across the globe - and in a variety of use cases. Read about how this technology can optimize resources and improve crop yield. Read more

Breakthrough insect control among new innovations

Hi-Tech Farming: New products are either here or coming to make agriculture more efficient. Read more

Tech Tracking for Australian Cattle

Deal will deploy Semtech wireless system in ear tags. Read more
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Integrating Smart Sensors into the Food Supply Chain

Long distances, variable conditions and thousands of moving parts make tracking the supply chain difficult. But with long-range, low-power technology, it’s easy. Read more

Remotely monitoring livestock with LoRaWAN

Semtech Corp. is collaborating with Smart Paddock to include its LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard into Smart Paddock’s Bluebell smart global positioning system (GPS) ear tag. This technology allows farmers to monitor livestock location in real time as well as analyze the cattle’s behavioral data for livestock management issues. Read more

The Digital Farm: Connectivity and IoT are transforming modern agriculture

A variety of internet of things (IoT) companies are opening with the agriculture market in mind, while some agriculture-based companies are adopting IoT capabilities into their existing solutions. Semtech is offering long-range wide area networking) connectivity for agricultural sites, which provides another way for intelligence to migrate from the fields to the internet. Read more

‘Florja’: Smart plant care solution

Semtech Corporation, a global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that Communicate2Integrate GmbH, an intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) company based in Munich, Germany, has chosen to integrate Semtech’s LoRa devices and LoRaWAN connectivity for its Florja solution. Read more

Semtech’s LoRa devices help monitor cattle, soil conditions

Marc Pégulu, vice president of IoT (Internet of Things) strategy and products at Semtech discusses how LoRaWAN network connectivity can help farmers monitor cattle and farm irrigation systems. Read more

Application Briefs & Use Cases

Learn more about specific applications of LoRa in smart agriculture.

LoRa-based Internet of Things smart agriculture indoor garden The Smart City of Calgary's Devonian Gardens leverages LoRa Technology to maintain acres of plants in an indoor botanical garden.
Indoor Botanical Garden
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Internet of Things smart agriculture soil moisture monitor Sensoterra's LoRa-based soil moisture monitoring solution offers farmers scale and operational visibility into soil irrigation.
Soil Moisture
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LoRa-based Internet of Things smart farming Implementing a LoRa-based precision farming solution comprised of sensors and gateways can help farmers improve crop yields, animal health and farm operations.
Precision Farming
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LoRa-enabled smart agriculture cattle tracking Chipsafer's smart solution with LoRa Technology allows ranchers to track and detect anomalies in cattle behavior at any time.
Cattle Tracking
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LoRa smart agriculture processing Demand for fresh, high quality food means agriculture products (crops, livestock, etc.) must move from farm to table very quickly and in a way that ensures food safety. LoRa Technology makes it possible.
Agriculture Processing
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Videos

Videos featuring LoRa-enabled smart agriculture solutions are presented below. Watch all LoRa videos here >>

Solving Agribusiness Challenges With LoRaWAN
LoRa Everything
IoT Applications for Agriculture
WEBINAR How LoRaWAN and the IoT Enable Smart Farm Management
Smart Calgary Use Case: Devonian Gardens
Semtech LoRa Use Case: Chipsafer Cattle Tracking
LoRa Wireless RF Technology Selected by Quantified Ag for Smart Agriculture Applications

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